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Nigeria ranked as the second worst country in electricity supply for 2017
The country’s energy situation is so bad that it was only better than Yemen, a war-torn country, in 2017.
According to the report, the electricity supply in 137 countries were examined and Yemen ranked as the worst nation with Nigeria, Haiti, Lebanon and Malawi following the war-torn middle east nation to round off a list of top 5 countries .
Other African economies that ranked high on the list were Ethiopia (37th), South Africa (41st) and Algeria (45th).
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Other report validating the ranking
Advisory Power Team (APT) also reported that the total electricity distributed by Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) as at January 14, 2018, stood at 3, 851.06mw. A report which confirms the assessment of the rating company.
“On January 14, 2018, average power sent out was 3,851MWh/hour (down by 169MWh/h from the previous day). 1437.9MW was not generated due to unavailability of gas," said the APT report.
“0MW was not generated due to unavailability of line infrastructure, while 680.5MW was not generated due to high frequency resulting from the unavailability of distribution infrastructure. 290MW was not generated due to unavailability of water.”
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Meanwhile, the Advisory Power Team report showed that the current capacity of Nigeria’s national grid is 4, 000 MW.
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